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Detail of work freshly unveiled by Pakistani artist Raj Kumar in his first international show since graduating from the National College of Arts, Lahor, and brought to Australia as part of the group show 'i don't want to be there when it happens', opening 17 August @4a_aus in Sydney.

Regram from artist @benaliong #thepacificroom

Detail install view of 'Ngayuku Tjukurpa' by Nyurpaya Kaika Burton as part of the 34th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards #natsiaa2017 on display @mag_nt in Darwin until 26 November.

Install view of 'Tjulpu Wiltja Tjuta (Birds nests)' (2017) by Iluwanti Ken and Mary Katajuku Pan as part of the 34th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards exhibition @mag_nt in Darwin until 26 November.

Another install view from the history-making 'Tjungunutja: from having come together'; pictured is the verso of 'Kalipinypa' (1971) by Walter Tjampitjinpa; on display @mag_nt in Darwin until 18 February 2018.

Install detail view of 'Rain, Lightning and stars at night' (1971) by Johnny Warangula Tjupurrula as part of the eye-opening historical show of the early Papunya Tula movement, 'Tjungunutja: from having come together', currently on display @mag_nt in Darwin until 18 February 2018.

A work that hauntingly illuminates ‘the shocking and little discussed histories of Aboriginal exploitation and abuse in the name of science in Australia’ has received this year’s acquisitive AU$20,000 Guirguis New Art Prize (GNAP) at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

Yhonnie Scarce’s installation work The More Bones the Better (2016) comprises both blown and shattered glass elements, reflecting ‘in the same way those lived and documented experiences continue to haunt the collective unconscious of this country,’ said Simon Maidment, Senior Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Born in Woomera, South Australia, of the Kokatha and Nukunu peoples, Melbourne-based Scarce has sensitively explored the intervention of science on Indigenous cultures through the medium of glass, with her work soon to be featured in May’s 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial, ‘Defying Empire’, at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

Scarce was one of 14 finalists in the exhibition and prize ‘GNAP17’, chosen by curators at major Australian public galleries, and displayed across two sites, Federation University Australia’s Post Office Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ballarat, until 14 May 2017.

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